Funding
Our current research has been generously funded by:
Research Grants:
6. UKRI Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Fund 2024
Title: Understanding the Climate-resilience of Insect Holobionts
5. Climate Change Department, Government of Gujarat 2023-2025
Title eDNA assessment of Nalsarovar wetland: understanding the interplay of life and temperature (PI Subhash Rajpurohit)
4. Ahmedabad University 2022-25
(Interdisciplinary Programmes around Sustainable Systems and Living: Cities, Health and Climate Change)
Title Climate understanding of dengue spread in urban landscapes (Team: Darshini Mahadevia, Aditya Vaishya, Bhargava Adhvaryu, Kaushik Jana, and Subhash Rajpurohit)
3. SERB Core Research Grant 2019-2022
Title Cuticle soft or hard: How do insects balance water? (PI Subhash Rajpurohit)
2. SERB-DST Ramanujan Fellowship 2018-2022 Core Research Grant 2019-2023
Title Fly populations response to warming (PI Subhash Rajpurohit)
1. University Research Board- Ahmedabad University 2018-2021 (Startup Research Grant)
Title Organismal responses to climate warming (PI Subhash Rajpurohit)
Conference Support:
Conference Support:
1. ANRF grant (ANRF/F/5660/2024-2025) for conducting a workshop: The Grand Challenges-Insect Decline, Causes, and Consequences. Date: 28-29 Nov 2024.
2. GSBTM grant (GSBTM/JD-HRD/FSA/2022-2023/00024448) for organizing the conference : Revolutionising Darwinian Synthesis: Fresh Perspectives and Future Challenges. Date: 9-11 Feb 2023
3. SERB grant (SSY/2022/000965) for organizing the conference : Revolutionising Darwinian Synthesis: Fresh Perspectives and Future Challenges. 9-11 Feb 2023
Science Outreach Grants:
To Postdoc Dr. Harshad Mayekar
1. Science outreach grant from Society for the Study of Evolution SSE, USA in 2022
Title: Taking-off with flies: what they tell us about evolution?
Awards & Fellowships:
European Molecular Biology Organization, EMBO Fellowship, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK (2022)
Chairman's Award for Research, Ahmedabad University-Ahmedabad, India (2021)
Ramanujan Fellowship, SERB-DST, Government of India (2018-2023)
The American Physiological Society Research Recognition Travel Award - Westminister. USA (2010)
Visiting Scholar grant under Indo-Israel Cultural Exchange Program funded through Israel Government to visit the Institute of Evolution, The University of Haifa, ISRAEL (2007-2008).
Riken Kobe Institute Center for Development Biology travel grant - Awaji Island, JAPAN (2007).
Association for the study of animal behavior (ASAB) travel grant - Locarno, SWITZERLAND (2005).